Brightons Parish Church, Main Road, Brightons

Brown and Carrick, 1846-7. Restrained Gothic church with lancet windows; T-plan with single storey vestry to rear; early 20th small hall added to rear of vestry; further large later 20th century additions to rear. Ashlar to front elevation, stugged snecked sandstone with raised droved margins to side and rear elevations. Base course; eaves course. Stone skews, curved skewputts.

FRONT (N) ELEVATION: 3-bay advanced gable, pinnacled buttresses flanking bays. Central 2-leaf timber panelled door in Tudor arched opening; hood-moulded triple lancet window above. Gable surmounted by angle buttressed, stone spired bellcote with louvred openings.

SIDE (E) ELEVATION: left, advanced gable with triple window; right, recessed single bay with single lancet. Far left, 20th century additions adjoining.

SIDE (W) ELEVATION: left, recessed single bay with single lancet. Right, advanced gable with triple window. Far right, recessed single storey vestry and hall, each with own piended roof; 20th century additions adjoining to right of hall.

REAR (S) ELEVATION: 3-bay elevation with timpan gable to centre; central bay partially obscured by vestry, hall and later 20th century additions.

INTERIOR: entrance lobby with 2 flights of gallery stairs with cast-iron balusters; some vertically-boarded timber wainscoting to walls; timber and etched glass screen dividing lobby and main body of church. Raking N (installed 1847), E and W (installed galleries, with timber-panelled parapet, supported on cast-iron columns. Organ salvaged from a Glasgow church and rebuilt by Andrew Watt and Son, 1950. Carved timber pulpit and communion table, 1936. Above pulpit, 3 blind lancets with plaster hoodmould. Vertically-boarded timber wainscoting to walls. To hall to rear, timber-beamed roof, springing from timber corbels, concealed by modern 20th century suspended ceiling.

GLAZING etc: replacement glass to majority of windows; 2 stained glass windows by Ruth Gollilaws, 1993, flanking pulpit. Pitched roof with graded slates. Mostly cast iron rainwater goods.

BOUNDARY WALL, RAILINGS, GATEPIERS AND GATES: running along N boundary, dwarf snecked wall surmounted by cast-iron fleur-de-lys railings; pair of square-plan gatepiers with chamfered corners and pyramidal caps; cast-iron gates.